(MOBI) The Pussycat of Prizefighting by Andrew M. Kaye

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The Pussycat of Prizefighting
Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity
by Andrew M. Kaye

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• Author: Andrew M. Kaye
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9780820325903 (0820325902)
• Format: hardcover, 232 pages
• Release date: June 1, 2004

About The Book

In 1926 Theodore “Tiger” Flowers became the first African American boxer to win the world middleweight title. The next year he was dead, the victim of surgery gone wrong. His funeral in Atlanta drew tens of thousands of mourners, black and while. Atlantans would not grieve again in comparable numbers until Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. Flowers, whose career was sandwiched between those of the better-known black boxers Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, was not America’s first successful black athlete. He was, especially in the South, where he became known as “the whitest black man in the ring.” “The Pussycat of Prizefighting is more than an account of Flowers’s remarkable achievements — it is a penetrating analysis of the cultural and historical currents that defined the terms of Flowers’s success as both a man and an athlete. As we discover the sources of Flowers’s immense popularity, Andrew Kaye also helps us to understand more deeply the pressures and dilemmas facing African Americans in the public eye. We read, for instance, how boxing reinforced fans’ notions of masculinity and ethnic pride; how whites rationalized the physical superiority of a black sportsman; and how blacks debated the value of athletes as racial role models. Kaye shows how Flowers, mindful that the ring was a testing ground for much more than his punching ability, carefully negotiated the mass media and celebrity culture. He crafted an uncontroversial public persona — that of a religious man who prayed before each match was deferential to whites, and exuded an aura of middle-class respectability. Through the prism of prizefighting, this book reveals the personal cost to African Americans as theyattempted to earn black respect while escaping white hostility. Andrew Kaye gives us much to ponder about our own hopes and prejudices — and how we often burden our athletes and celebrities with them.

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